BCSC relevant milestones
This year a total of 102 companies - 56 in Guipuzkoa, 25 in Biscay and 21 in Alava - have taken advantage of the Basque Government grants for boosting industrial cybersecurity. The programme, a pioneer in our area, is driven by SPRI and had an initial budget of 600,000 Euros, which was later…
After the summer and with the return to activity, we received a visit from a delegation of the Government of Chihuahua, Mexico at the facilities of the Basque Cybersecurity Centre, which is touring different points of contact in the Basque Country.
The Basque Cybersecurity Centre (BCSC), has inaugurated its new installations today, in the presence of the Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu and three members of his government: the ministers responsible for Economic Development and Infrastructures (Arantxa Tapia), Education (Cristina Uriarte) and…
European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO) aims to promote and develop cybersecurity initiatives across Europe, with a special emphasis on collaborations between state-run and private contracts, under the auspices of the European Commission.
From its outset in September 2017, one of the Basque Cybersecurity Centre's main aims has been to promote cybersecurity measures in Industry, in order to raise the level of protection in Basque companies, and to promote cybersecurity as a tool to gain a competitive edge. To this end, our first year…
Continuing advances in the 4.0 strategy of the Basque industrial sector have been the driving force behind the development of a strong cybersecurity industry over the last few years. Uniting in one single geographical area both an important demand for cybersecurity services and a well-rounded offer…
Rennes (Francia) is hosting the 3rd edition of the European Cyber Week from the 19th to the 22nd November. The European Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense forums will gather over 2,500 experts, including our director, Javier Diéguez, in representation o f the BCSC. Diéguez will be taking part in the…
On 10 June, we travelled to San Francisco to represent ECSO at a European Cybersecurity meeting hosted by the Consulate General of the Netherlands. One of the main objectives of the event was to show the high level of quality existing in Europe in cybersecurity innovation.
Eriz Lopetegui has participated in the second conference of the University of the Basque Country’s summer course entitled ‘The Company 4.0: digitisation and information technologies as a source of business competitiveness’.
The Basque CyberSecurity Centre and the Basque Government's General Secretariat for Foreign Affairs have met in Madrid with representatives from various foreign Embassies in order to promote the cybersecurity skills present in the technological ecosystem of the Basque Country.
The flagship events for Industry 4.0 and cybersecurity in the Basque Country will be celebrated jointly this year, remaining true to our goal of serving as a meeting point for public institutions, companies, business clusters, technological centres and universities, at local, national and…
The industrial sector is making a great effort to evolve into Industry 4.0, by dedicating not only economic but also human resources to maintain and build its competitive edge. The impact in the Basque Country is huge, bearing in mind that this strong infrastructure and development makes up 24% of…
With the aim of sharing information about vulnerabilities, incidents, tools and other key elements in response to incidents affecting internet security, internationally renown experts met from the 4th to the 7th February for the "TF-CSIRT meeting & FIRST Regional Symposium Europe" in Hamburg.
Technology and digital transformation are changing many aspects of people’s lives, but also those of institutions, including parliaments. Moreover, cybersecurity is a particularly sensitive factor, generally speaking, in the field of Public Administration.
The 16th STIC CCN-CERT Conference was held yesterday. In it, our director Javier Diéguez received recognition for his participation in and contribution to the Industry and R&D&I Promotion Working Group, awarded by the National Cybersecurity Forum to the people who collaborate with them.…
We start July with the participation of Javier Diéguez in an interesting round table organised by the technology campus 42Urduliz, in the framework of the conference entitled ‘Training in cybersecurity: solution or challenge?’ This was opened by Ainara Basurko, Regional Deputy for Economic…
Frontiers do not exist for cybercriminals, and because of this, global collaboration between CIRST (Incident Response and Security Teams) is key. In 2017 the Ertzaintza recorded a total of 9,127 cybercrimes in the Basque Country. This figure was 20% up on the previous year, and in the first 6…
The increased use of social engineering techniques in cybercrime is evident. These have been a key part in many of the highest impacting cyber-attacks in recent years.
The European Cybersecurity Organisation (ECSO) has chosen Javier Diéguez, The Director of the Basque Cybersecurity Centre (BCSC) as their representative in the European Regions Partnership Board for this organisation which is both state- and privately-run. The Board is the formal communication…
Cybersecurity is a transversal risk which affects all areas of society. Private users are constantly affected by different kinds of attack from the net, such as phishing and a multitude of other scams. Companies, meanwhile, are also constantly under attack from cybercriminals trying to access their…
The Basque Cybersecurity Centre (BCSC) began life in September 2017 as an organisation designated by the Basque Government to promote cybersecurity in the Basque Country. Its activity revolved around three fundamental aspects.
The Basque Cybersecurity Centre continues to work on projects focused on making the Basque Country into a territory with a mature network of Cybersecurity companies, and where the implementation of Cybersecurity in Industry as a competitive tool is a priority.
The Basque cybersecurity ecosystem has demonstrated its potential at the RSA Conference, one of the most internationally important cybersecurity events, held in San Francisco (USA) from the 4th to the 8th of March. During the event the Centro Vasco de Ciberseguridad-Basque Cybersecurity Centre (…
The Basque Cybersecurity Centre (BCSC) has performed two internationally significant actions which place the Basque Country as a European reference point for cybersecurity and will strengthen the position of Basque industrial and research cybersecurity ecosystems beyond our borders, following the…
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On the 8th and 9th of May, the CSIT 9th Annual World Cyber Security Summit in Belfast. The singular feature of this summit is the fact that it unites the international research community, leaders of industry, creators of government policy and new companies and small and middle-size businesses from…
At present we rely heavily on the technological know-how of places like the United States and Israel. In order to reduce this dependence and grow our own skills, the European authorities have recently been developing cooperation policies with suppliers, industry, centres for technological…
From the 4th to the 8th June Bilbao is set to become the world capital of IoT, or the Internet of Things. The Palacio Euskalduna conference centre will be the meeting place for a sector whose annual growth continues to exceed 20%, and is expected to be worth some 400,000 million Euros by 2020.…
Unity is strength and, once again, we have joined forces with Cybasque and IKERLAN to break the mould in the world of cybersecurity applied to the Machine-Tools sector. We want to raise awareness of the importance of teamwork between suppliers, companies and customers when danger lurks, and that is…
Today, society's dependence on technology implies a challenge for both the public and private sector, as they have had to engage with up-to-the-minute developments in order to satisfy the new demands of citizens and the market, as new technologies become more and more linked with their sectors'…